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Firstly, I don't go into schools to recruit them. I go to inspire them about science, engineering and technology and hope that some of them decide to pursue careers in those areas.

Secondly, if I was recruiting someone, whether they were home educated or not wouldn't make a difference - whether they were up to the job and had a personality I could work with would be how I'd play it. However I'm not in a position where I have ever had recruit in that way!

As far as home educated children counting for the STEM Ambassador Scheme then yes, any promotion of STEM subjects to children counts. I have done events where parents have brought along home educated children.

There is a question of ethics here. Does the UK really need any more engineers than it currently produces when countless people come on this forum bemoaning that they can't find an engineering job? Has the IET ever looked into how many underemployed engineers and engineering graduates there are?